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# Stampeding Through the 2025 USF Football Roster: #22 RB Chase Garnett
- URL: https://www.bayareaexaminer.com/stampeding-through-the-2025-usf-football-7d4/
- Published: 2025-08-06T16:00:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T15:47:06.000Z
- Description: We've reached the other half of USF's impressive freshman RB duo.
- Author: Collin Sherwin
- Tags: #Migrated-1792597384348, #Import 2026-10-21 15:44

**PLAYER:** Chase Garnett

**POSITION:** Running back

**YEAR:** Freshman

**HEIGHT/WEIGHT:** 5’9”, 215 lbs.

**HOW DID HE GET HERE?** A rare USF incoming freshman from Texas, Garnett transferred to Liberty Christian School in the DFW area as a junior and started putting up some monster numbers. This caught the attention of a number of schools, particularly in the western half of the U.S., and earned him a (say it with me) mid three-star rating from the recruiting services. In April 2024, after his junior season, he released a top seven that featured the Bulls and some other competitive mid-major offers, plus Arizona.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/77/a9/77a9bb8f-d0f1-45b5-8fed-5feacd465ef5/content/images/2026/10/8614e2a8-5b5b-48bf-bf3e-8612b9f8c9c1_1170x1354-jpeg.jpg)

In what will hopefully be a portent of things to come, the Bulls beat out Boise State and Tulsa for Garnett’s signature. He committed in July, signed on early signing day, and enrolled in the fall.

**WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT IN 2025?** Garnett is one of two incoming freshman running backs for the Bulls, both of whom I am very jazzed about. The other, Tray Kinkle, is a speedster, and Garnett is more of a traditional power back, so they’ve taken to calling themselves “Sonic and Knuckles.” Unfortunately, I am pretty unfamiliar with the Sonic franchise, so this reference was lost on me and prompted some very intense research.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/77/a9/77a9bb8f-d0f1-45b5-8fed-5feacd465ef5/content/images/2026/10/7ff8f68d-d0a8-4876-bc70-817870c1bf56_2048x236.png)

I get paid to write these!\*

Anyway, don’t take my word for it. In his introductory fall camp presser, Alex Golesh waxed poetic for a bit about Garnett and Kinkle, praising both of them as players who could feature in the running back rotation sooner rather than later. I do think “sooner” will mean 2026 or beyond, but I am very excited about both \[checks notes\] Sonic and Knuckles, the famous hedgehog and echidna, one of whom is very fast and the other is very strong. Everyone knows this, especially me.

*\*I do not get paid to write these.*

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